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Wondrous wizards...
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Merlin is the authority, really,
the advisor behind the throne.
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Mysterious sorcerers...
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Their job was really
to communicate with
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the sacred in order to bring
about a change here on Earth.
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And heavenly beings possessed
of unimaginable power.
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So what had
begun as a battle of magic
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becomes a horrific bloodbath.
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Throughout the ancient
world, magic was used
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for everything from healing to
communicating with the gods.
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But did real magic really exist?
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And if so, could it have come
from an otherworldly source?
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Certain human beings seem to have
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somehow mastered the power of
the universe to an extent that
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even we don't understand.
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The ancients
believed that they learned magic
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from their gods, and
extraterrestrial gods had
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taught them these powers.
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Millions of people around
the world believe we have
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been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
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And will we find proof by
exploring the magic of the gods?
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Las Vegas, Nevada, 2009.
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Magician Steve Wyrick stuns a
circle of 40 onlookers as he
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appears to make
a three-ton Hummer...
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Raise the curtain!
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vanish in an instant.
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Everyone, join hands.
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All right.
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There's 40 people around the Hummer.
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Watch this.
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Do it... now!
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The continued
popularity of illusions like
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these speaks to a worldwide
fascination with magic
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that can be traced back
thousands of years.
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We long for
some kind of connection to
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the supernatural, and we can
have it for a couple of hours
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and the price of a ticket
by attending a magic show.
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When we go to the theater
and see a stage magician,
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we know supernatural events are
not happening before our eyes
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no matter how much it
seems like they are.
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We sometimes think of the people
of the ancient worlds as simple.
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They lived in a world
saturated with magic.
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There really was no distinction between
ordinary life and the supernatural.
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They were completely
embedded in each other.
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So belief in magic was
absolutely universal.
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It was a way of looking
at the world as an
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interconnected whole, as well
as a technology through which
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you could make things happen in
the everyday material world.
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Magic offered people an
opportunity to influence the
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outcome of important events and
to know the will of the gods
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and to communicate
directly with those gods.
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In the ancient times,
it is actually said
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that magic was of the gods.
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Somehow otherworldly,
somehow beyond the confines
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of ordinary reality.
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What we see is that certain
human beings seem to
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have somehow mastered the power
of the universe to an extent
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that even we don't understand.
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Magic in the ancient
world was primarily
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viewed as, in some ways, coercive.
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Which is to say people are
attempting to control the
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spiritual realm to do something
in their daily lives.
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So, whereas modern magic is
primarily driven to engage
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in sort of trickery,
in the ancient world
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there was an attempt to sort of
coerce spirits to sort of affect
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one's life and the
direction of one's life.
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Whether that would be one's fate
or, in some ways, nature as well.
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But did magic really exist
in the ancient world?
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Not as a form of theater but
as a means of replicating
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the power of the gods?
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Shanxi Province, China,
7th century A.D.
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The Zhongtiao Mountain range.
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Here, according to Chinese
mythology, lived Zhang Guo Lao,
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a Taoist saint thought to possess
unique magical abilities
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and a profound understanding
of the secrets of nature.
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He was one of what were referred
to as the Eight Immortals.
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So the Eight Immortals are these
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semi-mythical figures
in Chinese history.
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The majority of them,
they're based on people who
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actually existed, and then
certain legends accrued around
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these people as time passed.
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The historical figure of
Zhang Guo Lao is thought
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to have lived in the mid-7th
and the mid-8th centuries.
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And he was very renowned for his
magical skills even at the time.
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Zhang Guo Lao is possibly
the most interesting
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of the Eight Immortals.
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He is depicted as an old man.
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He could make himself invisible.
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He could go without food for days.
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According to Chinese
mythology, Zhang Guo Lao
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first emerged at the very
beginning of the universe,
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where he appeared out of chaos
in the form of a white bat.
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He was thought to be a gifted
alchemist, necromancer and sorcerer.
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So Zhang Guo Lao is
often depicted as riding
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a magical mule, and what's
peculiar is that he is seated
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facing backwards on this mule.
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The mule can ride divine
winds and also cross
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thousands of miles in a single day
without ever stopping once for rest.
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When Zhang Guo Lao finds a
place that he wants to settle,
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for the night, he actually
folds up his mule as
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one would fold a piece of paper
until it is the size that you
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can fit in your pocket.
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And then he would
reactivate it by sprinkling
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water on it, and it
would reappear again.
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So you have to ask yourself, is
this white mule actually some
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kind of incredible alien
technology that allowed him
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to travel around China?
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It's entirely possible that what
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they're describing here is some
type of a craft and that Zhang
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Guo Lao himself may possibly
have been an extraterrestrial.
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In order to explain his
abilities and technology,
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our ancestors described
him as a magical being.
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But is it possible
that extraterrestrials
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could develop a technology in
which you have some sort of
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flying machine that can fold
itself into hyperspace?
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It runs on an advanced
energy propulsion source.
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You can travel with it.
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It's short, it's compact.
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And when you're done, you just
fold it into hyperspace, and
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it's something that you hold
in your hand and...
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the whole thing just folds up.
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Is it possible that Zhang
Guo Lao really existed?
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And if so, could his amazing
powers of transformation have
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been based on an advanced,
perhaps extraterrestrial form
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of transportation?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe further clues can be
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found more than 1,700 miles
away in Patna, India.
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Situated on the southern shores
of the Ganges River,
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this ancient city is believed to
be the place where the great
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spiritual leader Buddha
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embarked on an incredible
journey in 483 B.C.
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Gautama Buddha was a messenger
and sage, who was born
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in what is now Nepal sometime
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around 500 to 600
Before the Common Era.
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And he was the original figure
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in the teachings
that became Buddhism.
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When the Buddha was
born, his father was told by
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a seer that "your son is going
"to become a great teacher."
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The Buddha's message, his
teaching, is supposed to bring
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people out of suffering.
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He made up a religion to solve
what he considered as the basic
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problems of living.
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The Buddha traveled around
India spreading his teachings.
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His followers in the monastic
community grew increasingly.
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He was perceived as a human,
but an extraordinary human.
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In the process of gaining
enlightenment, he had these
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realizations that were marked
by supernatural powers.
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He actually projected and built,
through pure psychic power, this
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bejeweled walkway up in the sky.
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And he paced up and down that
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walkway filled with
jewels for about a week.
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According to ancient
texts, near the end of
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his life, Buddha and his many
disciples attempted to cross the
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Ganges, but were blocked
by raging floodwaters.
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Well, it happened to be
the time of the year when
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the great rivers flooded.
It's at its high peak.
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Not only is it very, very wide,
almost a mile wide at that time
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of the year, but it's going
very fast, something like 70
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miles an hour, a virtual rapid.
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And he sees people on
one side of the Ganges trying
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to build up these frail rafts,
trying to cross the river.
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And what he does is...
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in an instant, and the text says
that in the time it takes for
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a strong man to stretch out
his bent arm, or to bend his
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outstretched arm, the Buddha
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appears on the other
side of the river.
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Now, there
was no boat, no form of
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transportation whatsoever,
and people witnessed this.
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So was this some
sort of a miracle?
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Of course not.
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So are we talking about
teleportation here?
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Some type of technology that was
misinterpreted as a miracle?
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Might the incredible
feats performed by
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beings like Buddha and Zhang
Guo Lao be based on real-life
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extraterrestrial encounters?
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And if so, could they have been the
inspiration for what we now call "magic"?
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Perhaps further evidence can be
found by examining the stories
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of a famous sorcerer whose
supernatural powers helped to
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build a mighty nation.
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Tintagel Island, England.
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500 A.D.
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Here, hidden along the rugged
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Cornwall coastline, is the
entrance to a mysterious cave
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thought to have housed
the great wizard Merlin.
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We first see Merlin
historically in the
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writings of Geoffrey of Monmouth.
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He tells the story of this
extraordinary character who most
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famously shows up during
the time period of Arthur.
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I think that there is this
tendency to think of him
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as the man in the pointed cap.
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And to be a little bit sort of
comical, um, or ridiculous.
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When, in fact, the real Merlin
is a very, very serious and very
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important character.
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According to stories,
King Arthur lived
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around 500 A.D., and he was advised
by this wise man called Merlin.
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Merlin is attributed as having
all sorts of miraculous powers.
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He is said to be able to bring
lightning down, and thunder.
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He can levitate rocks.
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He can foresee the future.
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He can call upon a mist
to cover the battlefield.
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Merlin seems to have been based
on this idea of the Druids.
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Druids were the sort of
religious figures, uh, in a lot
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of this early society.
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In some cases, we see them
associated with the, uh, more
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Celtic warrior groups, where
they would...might function as
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a king's advisor.
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Druids appear as very magical,
and having various other ways
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that they could interact with
the supernatural world for the
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benefit of the mundane world.
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There is a manuscript
in the British
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library called the Annales Cambriae,
which means the Welsh Annals.
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And in there it refers to a man
by the name of Merlin living
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in a forest somewhere in the north.
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And the way it refers to this
Merlin, is it could very well
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be the same Merlin as the Merlin
in the stories of Arthur.
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According to legend,
it is Merlin who was
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the mastermind behind a plan
which would unite the various
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kingdoms of Britain into one
nation, capable of fending off
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invasion by Saxon forces.
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He launches a quest to install
the young Arthur as king, using
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his formidable powers.
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Merlin is stage-managing
the union of
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Britain from before the
time Arthur is conceived.
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He essentially manipulates
things so that Arthur can be
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born in a way that has royal
blood, but he does not grow up
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in a castle, which was a
dangerous place for a divinely
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ordained leader to be.
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He was able to be a tutor
to Arthur in his childhood,
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teach him ways of nature.
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He makes him king by
getting Arthur to perform all
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sorts of feats that no one else can do,
like drawing the sword from the stone.
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And it seems that he wants to
make Arthur into a sort of
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immortal figure in the eyes of
the people, so that they will
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readily follow him and make
him their one and only king.
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In other words, Merlin is the
authority, really, the advisor
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behind the throne.
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Did Merlin use supernatural
or otherworldly
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knowledge to empower Arthur, and in
so doing, create the British Empire?
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But why?
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And who... or what... was Merlin?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe clues can be found in
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the strange circumstances
surrounding Merlin's birth.
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The birth of Merlin
is a miraculous tale.
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His mother was a nun, a virgin,
who has a steamy erotic dream,
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and she wakes up just
knowing she is pregnant.
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So Merlin's father
could've been an incubus.
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That would be a dark angel,
one of the devil's legion,
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a monstrous figure, who in this
case came and had sex with
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innocent women while they
slept, in their dreams.
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The most common
legends about Merlin say that
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he got his powers through
this demonic father.
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Merlin was baptized and then the
demonic nature melted away,
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but he maintained all of the
magic from the demon father.
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When we're
confronted by the story of
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Merlin, we're looking at a
medieval figure who is possibly
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another example of an
otherworldly being, who is half
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human, half extraterrestrial,
and that he, in fact, is a
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representative of this long
line of otherworldly beings.
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This is the real
core of British history.
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It's very revered.
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It doesn't seem that someone just
made this up out of nowhere.
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It could be that the stories
help cover up the truth.
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Which was that human...
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extraterrestrial contact did occur.
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That Merlin was actually an
extraterrestrial being who was
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sent here to help King Arthur
establish his kingdom, and that
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Merlin's advanced capabilities
might be nothing more than the
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use of technology that
he had available to him.
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Is it possible that Merlin
had what many believe to
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have been otherworldly origins?
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If so, might his magic really
have been based, not on occult
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forces, but on advanced
extraterrestrial technology?
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London.
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1966.
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The British Museum acquires an
unusual Aztec artifact thought
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to possess magical powers.
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Known as the "Devil's Looking
Glass," this mirror, made of
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black volcanic glass, once
belonged to the influential
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16th century scholar, John Dee.
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Dee was a respected
mathematician, astrologer,
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and close advisor to
Queen Elizabeth I.
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He was also considered to be a
powerful magician and claimed he
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used the mirror to
communicate with angels.
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John Dee was
a famous magician in the
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Elizabethan Period in England.
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Probably the most famous
Renaissance mage, at least from
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England from that time, and he
became very obsessed with trying
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to conjure angels.
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Later magical practitioners start
to refer to it as Enochian magic.
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John Dee believed that there
was an angelic language.
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That there was a sound, a real
sound, not just a concept, but
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a voice that the universe spoke
in, that the angels, that those
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with supreme knowledge had
their very, very own language.
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And he was trying to tap into that.
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Dee believes this
information was given to
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him because God originally
wanted it to go to mankind
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throughout all of time.
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This Enochian magic was given
to man before but has been lost
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throughout the ages.
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God originally gave it to Adam,
the legend goes, and then
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to the prophet Enoch, and
maybe to others in between.
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Did early magicians like
John Dee really have access
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to extraterrestrial technology?
Technology that was mistakenly
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believed to be of a
supernatural or divine origin?
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In the ancient world,
magicians were religious
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specialists whose job was to
interact with the spirit world
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on behalf of their social group.
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Their job was really to
communicate with the sacred
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in order to bring about real and
lasting change here on Earth.
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Centers of power
would have magicians.
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The courts of the time, whether
a king, a Caesar or a pharaoh
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would have "vizars"...
wizards, magicians... advising them,
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protecting them, using their
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secret powers to heal,
to guide in battle.
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It was an important part of
leadership in ancient times.
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These figures had enormous
power and enormous influence,
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not only helping a leader,
but helping a country
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stay together.
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Is it possible that the
early practitioners of what
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we call magic were really
individuals in possession of
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advanced extraterrestrial
knowledge...
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knowledge that could change
the course of human history?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe that such an audacious
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notion is, in fact, possible and
believe further evidence may be
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found in the legends of a
mysterious device... one so
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powerful, it could make
its user disappear.
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Dallas, Texas.
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2011.
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Researchers at the University
of Texas's Nanotech Institute
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discover a process that can
actually make objects invisible.
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These scientists spin tiny
carbon fibers into sheets,
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and submerge them into water.
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An electrical charge heats the
material, and changes the way
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the surrounding water bends
light, making an object appear
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to vanish at the turn of a switch.
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We are not actually seeing around
the object we're cloaking.
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What we're doing is we're using
the heated carbon nanotube sheet
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to bend light.
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So when we think we're looking
in a particular direction,
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we're actually looking
at neighboring seawater.
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We're using very extraordinary
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materials to accomplish
our mirage cloaking.
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But as innovative as this
remarkable technology is,
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stories of devices with similar powers
can be found throughout history.
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Serifos, Greece.
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It was here, on this tiny island
in the Aegean Sea, the ancient
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Greeks believed the hero Perseus
set off on his seemingly
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impossible mission to kill
the fearsome Gorgon Medusa.
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So Perseus had
this incredible challenge
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because Medusa was powerful, and
you just look at her and die, so
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it is a true dangerous
situation for the hero.
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According to mythology,
Perseus is given a
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magical helmet that ultimately
ensures his success.
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Called the Helm of Darkness,
the cap belonged to Hades,
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the god of the Underworld.
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Perseus goes on this
adventure with the help of a
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number of the-the Greek gods.
He is given a number of
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mythological items that are going
to help him on his journey.
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He is given the cap of Hades,
which will make him invisible.
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He then successfully kills Medusa...
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and the other two Gorgons try
to find him but they can't see
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him because he's wearing
the helm of invisibility.
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Did the Helm of Darkness
really make Perseus disappear?
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Or might there be another, perhaps
more scientific, explanation?
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This could be an ancient
example of an advanced
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technology, using the bendable
nature of light, and laws of
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physics that we're now aware
of, to make something that
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seems to be impossible very
attainable, and with a
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technology that anyone could
use, if they wanted to.
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Is Hades' helmet evidence
of an alien technology
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once used in ancient times?
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And if so, might the tales of
other magical devices in the
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distant past offer proof that
our ancestors had access to
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other even more highly advanced
extraterrestrial tools?
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Ponza, Italy.
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Located in the Mediterranean Sea,
this crescent-shaped island
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is thought to be the legendary
home of the Greek goddess Circe...
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a goddess thought to possess a
wand with remarkable power.
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But the notion of a wand as
an instrument of magic can be
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traced back even farther, back to
the very origins of magic itself.
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The idea of magic comes from
the area known as Persia, or Iran.
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This is from Zoroaster, the
Zoroastrian traditions and rituals.
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The magi, the priest of that
belief system would use a
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handful of wands as a magical
intercession, a way to connect
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the unseen world and the seen.
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Magicians and leaders of all
kind use staffs and verges and
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rods and wands and scepters, maces,
all from similar traditions.
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The ancient accounts
of Circe's famous wand
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describe it as a formidable
weapon, capable of producing
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astonishing
physical transformations.
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According to Greek mythology,
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Circe was the daughter of
Helios, the god of the sun.
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And according to those legends,
she was incredibly beautiful.
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In fact, she was radiant.
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She was glowing because she
was not of this Earth.
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The ancient Greeks considered
her the goddess of magic.
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The stories surrounding
Circe usually refer to her
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powerful wand, with which
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she was able to transform
people into animals.
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And so there's
a famous story in the
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Odyssey where Odysseus and his
men land on a mysterious island.
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And they come come upon
a house where there's a
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woman inside who's singing songs.
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And the songs that she sings
sort of lure the men into
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the house, and Circe says that
she's going to entertain them.
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And in the course of her
interactions with them,
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she pulls out a wand and
touches them with it.
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As a result, the men are
then transformed into pigs.
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The idea of
transformation is fascinating.
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There was fear in the ancient
world that you could be changed
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into a wolf or some other animal.
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And then it was imagined
that some people with
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extraordinary powers could do
this to you, against your will,
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and that was greatly feared.
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And a good deal of magical practice
was to try to avoid such a calamity.
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Was Circe's magic wand
simply a mythological
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invention, one rooted in
mankind's primitive imagination
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and superstition, as
mainstream scholars suggest?
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Or might this incredible
device have actually existed.
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Because we all know
that all of these myths
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have a core of truth to them;
something that happened in real life.
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And so when we talk about
powerful wands that are used in
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order to transform
people into animals...
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the only thing that something
like this could have happened
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is if it was a technological device.
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Is it possible,
however, that an extremely
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advanced technology could
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actually, somehow, generate
a shape-shifting effect...
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and completely retool the DNA,
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the physical tissues, the flesh
of a living human being?
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Many different ancient
legends describe some sort
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of handheld device that had
incredible capability to do
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things that would seem to be
magical or even impossible.
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We see Vishnu's spear.
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We see Thor's hammer.
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We see Zeus's thunderbolt.
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This could very well all be
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examples of a
handheld technology that
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extraterrestrial humans who
look like us did possess.
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Might Circe have come
from a divine, possibly
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extraterrestrial lineage?
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And if so, could her wand have
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been based on highly
advanced alien technology?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe such an idea is
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00:30:13,152 --> 00:30:17,556
possible, and believe more
evidence can be found in
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the stories of one of the
most epic and destructive
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confrontations in religious history.
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Qantir, the Nile Delta, Egypt,
60 miles northeast of Cairo.
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Many historians believe that
beneath these fields lie the
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ancient ruins of the
lost city of Pi-Ramesse.
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In the 13th century B.C.,
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during the reign of
Pharaoh Ramses II, this
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city served as the capitol of
Egypt, and according to some
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theologians, was the historical
site of the Ten Plagues of Egypt
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as described in the
Biblical Book of Exodus.
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We have the story
of the Exodus, which
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is the story of the Hebrew
people leaving Egypt.
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And so Moses is going
to be the liberator.
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He's chosen by God, I.e.
Yahweh, to go to pharaoh and
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say, "Let my people go."
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Moses is told by this
angel inside the burning
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bush that he must go to Pharaoh
and convince him to release
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700,000 Hebrews.
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The next thing that most
people know is that he's in
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the court of pharaoh challenging
pharaoh's magicians.
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In the very ancient
civilization of Egypt,
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magicians played an important
part in the court of the pharaoh.
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They protected the pharaoh
from dark powers.
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They healed him from time to time.
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They gave him legitimacy
with the people.
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They were vital in the court
life in ancient Egypt.
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The Egyptians
had no word for religion.
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00:32:07,094 --> 00:32:10,597
For them, magic was their religion.
477
00:32:10,648 --> 00:32:14,017
It was around them,
it was part of them.
478
00:32:14,068 --> 00:32:18,855
It was the power of their deities,
it created their deities.
479
00:32:18,940 --> 00:32:21,858
It was a constant
force in their life.
480
00:32:21,909 --> 00:32:24,995
So to study magic, to
understand magic was
481
00:32:25,029 --> 00:32:27,514
to understand the world.
482
00:32:29,550 --> 00:32:33,670
Egyptians were the masters
of natural magic.
483
00:32:33,704 --> 00:32:39,125
They understood how magic really
works, how you could use nature
484
00:32:39,159 --> 00:32:44,598
and use the power of a human
mind to create an effect.
485
00:32:44,632 --> 00:32:47,501
According to the Biblical
account, God instructs
486
00:32:47,535 --> 00:32:51,338
Moses to give the pharaoh a
demonstration of his divine
487
00:32:51,405 --> 00:32:56,509
power, one that will force him
to free the Israelite slaves.
488
00:32:59,013 --> 00:33:02,983
In order to help
compel pharaoh, Moses
489
00:33:03,017 --> 00:33:05,452
throws down his staff so
it turns into a serpent.
490
00:33:05,486 --> 00:33:08,154
The Egyptian magicians, they
look at that and they go,
491
00:33:08,188 --> 00:33:10,189
"Gosh, we can do this, too."
492
00:33:10,208 --> 00:33:14,160
All of the magicians throw
their rods down on the ground.
493
00:33:14,195 --> 00:33:15,629
They all turn into snakes.
494
00:33:15,696 --> 00:33:18,732
But Moses' snake eats
all those other snakes.
495
00:33:18,766 --> 00:33:22,068
And that's the beginning of what
we know as probably the greatest
496
00:33:22,103 --> 00:33:24,804
magic contest ever recorded.
497
00:33:24,839 --> 00:33:26,439
God is equipping
498
00:33:26,474 --> 00:33:31,378
Moses to face off pharaoh
and pharaoh's magicians.
499
00:33:31,445 --> 00:33:34,431
It is a literal battle of sorcerers.
500
00:33:34,515 --> 00:33:37,984
The confrontation
quickly escalates as God
501
00:33:38,019 --> 00:33:41,721
proceeds to unleash a series of
ten increasingly devastating
502
00:33:41,772 --> 00:33:45,792
plagues on the people of Egypt.
503
00:33:45,826 --> 00:33:48,361
In the first plague,
Moses touches his staff
504
00:33:48,429 --> 00:33:52,732
to the Nile River, and it becomes
blood, but the magicians
505
00:33:52,750 --> 00:33:54,634
are able to do this as well.
506
00:33:54,702 --> 00:33:59,906
In the second plague, Moses
multiplies frogs, but so can the
507
00:33:59,974 --> 00:34:04,744
magicians, although once they do it,
they can't get rid of the frogs.
508
00:34:04,795 --> 00:34:07,013
In the third plague,
509
00:34:07,081 --> 00:34:10,550
Moses brings about gnats,
or some think lice.
510
00:34:10,618 --> 00:34:12,652
So for each of these plagues,
511
00:34:12,687 --> 00:34:16,122
they begin to increase
in their severity.
512
00:34:16,157 --> 00:34:19,893
And up through the third plague,
the Egyptian magicians are able
513
00:34:19,927 --> 00:34:25,532
to replicate everything
Moses is doing.
514
00:34:25,566 --> 00:34:28,568
But finally, they have to
concede that, you know,
515
00:34:28,619 --> 00:34:31,621
this is the finger of God,
and beyond this, we can't
516
00:34:31,656 --> 00:34:34,273
challenge him anymore.
517
00:34:34,292 --> 00:34:36,442
What we're seeing
here is very strange.
518
00:34:36,460 --> 00:34:41,164
We're seeing a magic competition
that God is continuing,
519
00:34:41,215 --> 00:34:43,166
forcing a continuance of this.
520
00:34:43,217 --> 00:34:47,804
And it eventually leads to the
death of every firstborn male
521
00:34:47,838 --> 00:34:53,126
in Egypt, which finally
ends the entire thing.
522
00:34:53,194 --> 00:34:58,131
And Moses takes not only the
700,000 Hebrews out, but
523
00:34:58,182 --> 00:35:01,467
generally considered to be
between one and two million
524
00:35:01,485 --> 00:35:07,140
Egyptians go with him, as well, on
what we now know as the Exodus.
525
00:35:07,158 --> 00:35:10,677
So what had begun as
a battle of magic tricks,
526
00:35:10,745 --> 00:35:16,583
turning staffs into serpents, becomes,
really, a horrific bloodbath.
527
00:35:16,650 --> 00:35:18,001
That is, as the resistance
528
00:35:18,035 --> 00:35:21,788
continues, Yahweh keeps
upping the ante.
529
00:35:21,839 --> 00:35:24,040
The plagues get worse and worse.
530
00:35:24,091 --> 00:35:26,209
Now, these are supernatural events.
531
00:35:26,260 --> 00:35:29,045
We don't know how they were
done, how they transpired, but
532
00:35:29,130 --> 00:35:33,133
the shift in history happened
because of the plagues.
533
00:35:33,167 --> 00:35:35,802
So, magic prevailed.
534
00:35:35,836 --> 00:35:39,556
Theologians will say, "This
was God that did "this."
535
00:35:39,607 --> 00:35:41,191
I have a different theory.
536
00:35:41,225 --> 00:35:42,976
I don't think God is mean.
537
00:35:43,010 --> 00:35:44,510
I don't think God goes out and
538
00:35:44,562 --> 00:35:50,784
kills and so it could've
been extraterrestrial.
539
00:35:50,851 --> 00:35:51,785
Might the story of
540
00:35:51,852 --> 00:35:55,155
the Ten Plagues of Egypt really
be an account of a deadly
541
00:35:55,189 --> 00:35:59,692
contest between humans in
possession of extraterrestrial
542
00:35:59,710 --> 00:36:03,696
technology, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe?
543
00:36:03,748 --> 00:36:06,883
The ancient Egyptians
believed that they
544
00:36:06,967 --> 00:36:09,052
learned magic from their gods,
545
00:36:09,136 --> 00:36:14,140
and these extraterrestrial gods
had taught them these powers.
546
00:36:14,175 --> 00:36:17,143
Suddenly, they found out that
they were up against a more
547
00:36:17,178 --> 00:36:22,766
powerful force, a more
powerful magic than they had.
548
00:36:22,817 --> 00:36:25,718
We're not dealing
with two indigenous human
549
00:36:25,770 --> 00:36:28,772
cultures battling it
out here on Earth.
550
00:36:28,823 --> 00:36:29,773
We're dealing with people on
551
00:36:29,824 --> 00:36:34,577
Earth in a war they could not
win against extraterrestrials.
552
00:36:36,864 --> 00:36:39,899
In many of the ancient
texts, it seems apparent
553
00:36:39,934 --> 00:36:45,071
that the gods actually took sides.
They were involved in battles.
554
00:36:45,122 --> 00:36:46,956
So to suggest that they might've
555
00:36:47,007 --> 00:36:51,795
been also involved in
plagues is plausible.
556
00:36:51,879 --> 00:36:54,964
So the question is, was it
really God who unleashed these
557
00:36:55,015 --> 00:37:00,103
plagues upon Egypt, or was it
in fact an extraterrestrial?
558
00:37:00,137 --> 00:37:03,139
And according to the ancient
astronaut theory, it was a
559
00:37:03,190 --> 00:37:06,893
misunderstood, misinterpreted
extraterrestrial who, in this
560
00:37:06,927 --> 00:37:11,898
particular case, sided
with the Israelites.
561
00:37:11,949 --> 00:37:13,900
Might the incredible power,
wielded by
562
00:37:13,934 --> 00:37:15,735
Moses against the Egyptians,
563
00:37:15,786 --> 00:37:19,906
have been of an
extraterrestrial origin...
564
00:37:19,957 --> 00:37:24,711
a power based as much on science
as on an extraordinary knowledge
565
00:37:24,745 --> 00:37:28,548
of the powers of the human mind?
566
00:37:28,582 --> 00:37:33,086
Many ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer is "yes," and
567
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:37,557
that the key to what many
perceive as magic can be found
568
00:37:37,591 --> 00:37:42,095
not only on other worlds, but
right within the human body.
569
00:37:47,571 --> 00:37:48,905
New York City.
570
00:37:48,906 --> 00:37:50,507
2012.
571
00:37:52,542 --> 00:37:56,963
Magician David Blaine begins a
72-hour stint standing in the
572
00:37:57,014 --> 00:37:58,915
middle of a million volts of
573
00:37:58,966 --> 00:38:03,553
electrical current, protected
by only a suit of armor.
574
00:38:03,587 --> 00:38:06,356
But is it a mere trick?
575
00:38:06,390 --> 00:38:08,107
An illusion?
576
00:38:08,142 --> 00:38:12,929
Or is it evidence that what we
call magic actually exists?
577
00:38:12,947 --> 00:38:15,932
We're interested in
people like David Blaine
578
00:38:15,983 --> 00:38:21,204
because we find
those things amazing.
579
00:38:21,238 --> 00:38:24,574
It just pushes the boundaries of
what human beings are capable of.
580
00:38:24,625 --> 00:38:29,278
And I think that we ask ourselves,
could we be capable of such a thing?
581
00:38:29,296 --> 00:38:32,949
We will embrace
the endurance effects.
582
00:38:32,967 --> 00:38:38,004
We will embrace them because
we think this might be real.
583
00:38:38,055 --> 00:38:41,558
Maybe there's something to this.
Maybe there isn't a trick.
584
00:38:41,592 --> 00:38:50,466
Maybe I can evolve into a person
able to do this kind of magic.
585
00:38:50,501 --> 00:38:56,489
We are quite literally searching
for the supernatural in ourself.
586
00:39:00,611 --> 00:39:03,312
Izu Oshima.
587
00:39:03,330 --> 00:39:06,115
60 miles south of Tokyo.
588
00:39:06,149 --> 00:39:11,588
It was here, in the seventh
century B.C., that a legendary
589
00:39:11,655 --> 00:39:15,592
Japanese mystic known as En
no Gyoja was banished for his
590
00:39:15,659 --> 00:39:18,595
so-called magical powers.
591
00:39:18,662 --> 00:39:22,382
En no Gyoja was the
founder of an ascetic teaching.
592
00:39:22,433 --> 00:39:26,185
Shugendo means the practice
of training and testing.
593
00:39:26,220 --> 00:39:29,606
This tradition from the seventh
century, done up in the
594
00:39:29,673 --> 00:39:31,391
mountains with great physical,
595
00:39:31,442 --> 00:39:37,213
arduous exercises and discipline
is said to lead to an access
596
00:39:37,248 --> 00:39:42,685
to supernatural powers
beyond our understanding.
597
00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:46,256
En no Gyoja's magic
differs from our European
598
00:39:46,323 --> 00:39:48,374
concepts of magic in many ways.
599
00:39:48,409 --> 00:39:51,494
This is something that you
bring out of yourself.
600
00:39:51,528 --> 00:39:55,531
He would go high into the mountains...
less oxygen,
601
00:39:55,549 --> 00:39:57,667
isolated, less food.
602
00:39:57,701 --> 00:40:02,038
Just one lapse of
concentration and you die.
603
00:40:02,056 --> 00:40:05,308
And then also meditating in
the middle of a waterfall.
604
00:40:05,342 --> 00:40:10,546
That's where he finds silence.
That's where he finds control.
605
00:40:10,614 --> 00:40:13,683
Even historical records
depict En no Gyoja as
606
00:40:13,717 --> 00:40:18,988
someone who was endowed with
magical capacities, and the
607
00:40:19,056 --> 00:40:23,443
ability to also summon and
control demons and spirits.
608
00:40:23,527 --> 00:40:25,612
En no Gyoja was also known for
609
00:40:25,696 --> 00:40:29,599
his ability to ride the
five-colored clouds.
610
00:40:29,633 --> 00:40:33,169
He was also set to be executed
a number of times, and every
611
00:40:33,203 --> 00:40:36,623
time the executioners' axe
landed on the back of his neck,
612
00:40:36,674 --> 00:40:40,176
the axe actually shattered to pieces.
613
00:40:42,630 --> 00:40:44,964
Still, today, we're making
ongoing discoveries
614
00:40:45,015 --> 00:40:50,186
about the capabilities and potential
of the human brain and body.
615
00:40:50,220 --> 00:40:51,604
So it's possible that in the
616
00:40:51,639 --> 00:40:55,558
stories and legends of En no
Gyoja, we're seeing someone who
617
00:40:55,609 --> 00:40:59,095
was able to somehow access
knowledge that was already
618
00:40:59,146 --> 00:41:05,268
hardwired into our own DNA
by extraterrestrials.
619
00:41:05,302 --> 00:41:08,271
Is it possible that
ancient magicians like En no
620
00:41:08,305 --> 00:41:12,008
Gyoja were able to tap into
incredible extraterrestrial
621
00:41:12,076 --> 00:41:16,963
abilities embedded
within the human body?
622
00:41:16,997 --> 00:41:20,616
And might this explain similar
feats performed by more modern
623
00:41:20,634 --> 00:41:27,090
magicians like Harry
Houdini and David Blaine?
624
00:41:27,124 --> 00:41:34,097
Magic appears to be a derivation
of extraterrestrial technology.
625
00:41:34,148 --> 00:41:36,516
It's the accessing of the human
626
00:41:36,567 --> 00:41:42,438
potential, using the
technology of the human form.
627
00:41:42,473 --> 00:41:46,642
Magic derived from
extraterrestrial beings seems
628
00:41:46,677 --> 00:41:48,378
to be the linkage that they gave
629
00:41:48,412 --> 00:41:53,216
us to enable us to
become more like them.
630
00:41:53,283 --> 00:41:56,586
Do ancient accounts of
magic really suggest evidence
631
00:41:56,653 --> 00:42:00,123
of advanced,
otherworldly knowledge?
632
00:42:00,157 --> 00:42:03,026
A knowledge given to early
humans as a means of helping
633
00:42:03,060 --> 00:42:08,297
them unlock their own...
some might say "divine"... potential?
634
00:42:08,332 --> 00:42:10,500
We are drawn to magic.
635
00:42:10,567 --> 00:42:16,139
We need something extraordinary
that allows us to transcend
636
00:42:16,206 --> 00:42:20,143
everyday life, and what we
sense as profound limits and
637
00:42:20,177 --> 00:42:25,314
frustrations to what we would
like to be and like to do.
638
00:42:25,365 --> 00:42:31,037
It is both a fantasy release and
to a degree, a bit of a map that
639
00:42:31,071 --> 00:42:35,491
we might be able to reach
further than we think.
640
00:42:35,525 --> 00:42:39,045
That we might be able to do more
than humans have done before.
641
00:42:39,129 --> 00:42:43,399
That we might be more than this.
642
00:42:43,434 --> 00:42:47,303
Magic enables latent
potentials that we're not
643
00:42:47,337 --> 00:42:50,873
supposed to have.
But throughout history, many
644
00:42:50,924 --> 00:42:54,227
people have demonstrated
those capabilities.
645
00:42:54,311 --> 00:42:56,929
They've been witnessed.
It's been written down and
646
00:42:56,980 --> 00:43:01,234
passed along with great
excitement and enthusiasm.
647
00:43:01,268 --> 00:43:02,318
And then, of course,
648
00:43:02,386 --> 00:43:04,320
the question is where
did they get this from?
649
00:43:04,388 --> 00:43:06,322
Did they develop this on their own?
650
00:43:06,390 --> 00:43:08,941
Or was it somehow given
to them by the gods?
651
00:43:08,992 --> 00:43:14,113
In each occasion, we find that
our ancestors specifically state
652
00:43:14,164 --> 00:43:19,302
that magic is given to mankind
by the gods, by non-human
653
00:43:19,336 --> 00:43:23,172
intelligences, by
extraterrestrial beings.
654
00:43:26,126 --> 00:43:31,147
Did ancient magic really
have otherworldly origins?
655
00:43:31,181 --> 00:43:34,617
And was it based not on mere
trickery, but on advanced
656
00:43:34,685 --> 00:43:39,355
knowledge of science and the
powers of the human brain?
657
00:43:39,423 --> 00:43:42,525
Perhaps we will discover the
answer when we open our eyes
658
00:43:42,559 --> 00:43:47,480
to the possibility that what we
think we know is an illusion,
659
00:43:47,531 --> 00:43:53,119
and what we think is illusion
may very well be real.
660
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,120
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